While Edgar is working on the 1940 census, he discovers father-in-law Billy Franey's old sweetheart, living in a mansion. She says she would marry him -- and take him off of Edgar's hands -- if he had a cow -- so Edgar buys a cow. Little does Edgar know know she is a maid in the house.
It's a typically amusing episode in Kennedy's COMMON MAN series that ran at RKO from 1932 until his death in 1948, amidst his frequent work as a supporting comic in many a well-remembered feature, from Marx Brothers movies to Preston Sturges gems. Earlier, he had begun his movie with Keystone in 1914 and had appeared in -- and directed -- Laurel & Hardy movies. His best-remembered comic shtick was the "slow burn", in which he would gradually lose his temper, as the situation grew more and more unbearable; there's a prime example of it here.
It's a typically amusing episode in Kennedy's COMMON MAN series that ran at RKO from 1932 until his death in 1948, amidst his frequent work as a supporting comic in many a well-remembered feature, from Marx Brothers movies to Preston Sturges gems. Earlier, he had begun his movie with Keystone in 1914 and had appeared in -- and directed -- Laurel & Hardy movies. His best-remembered comic shtick was the "slow burn", in which he would gradually lose his temper, as the situation grew more and more unbearable; there's a prime example of it here.
